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Kovalonoks and Goswami got married in Turku, Finland, in August 2023. We think Finland is a good place to raise childrenMegha: We rent an apartment in Turku, a few kilometers from the city center. Megha: We would like to have a family of our own someday, and we think Finland is a good place to raise children. Courtesy of QpidindiaWe think expats in Finland face unique challengesMegha: Finland has been named the happiest country in the world six times in a row in the World Happiness Report. I think Finland has several things that allow people to be content, such as work-life balance and good healthcare and education.
Persons: , Kristaps Kovalonoks, Megha Goswami, Megha, wasn't, Kristaps, Kovalonoks, Goswami, Barbara Kaucher, we're, We've, that's, I've Organizations: Service, University of Turku, Business Locations: Finland, Estonian, Latvia, India, Turku, Nordic, Riga
AdvertisementFlexibility can be an illusionMost single parents with whom BI spoke said they valued the flexibility gig work gives them. Some single parents with disabilities said being able to take days off has helped them stay healthier and avoid burnout. This means that a higher percentage of single parents' earnings goes toward childcare costs, pushing some away from using childcare entirely. "These fluctuations and discrepancies can be devastating to individuals who don't have other mechanisms to make money, including single parents who are often operating on a single income," Greening said. AdvertisementIt's not easy for parents with older childrenThe issues single parents face still linger for those with older children.
Persons: Bri, Uber, Dara Khosrowshahi, Lyft, Uber hasn't, Susan, she's, Lindsey Cameron, Cameron, Cindy Lehnhoff, Lehnhoff, Bryant Greening, Greening, Starla, She's, Genesis, Paul, he's, It's humbling Organizations: Service, DoorDash, Walmart, Business, Wharton School, National Child Care Association, BI, Uber, Security Disability Insurance, Arizona State University Locations: Fort Worth , Texas, Grubhub, bam, Ohio, Jacksonville , Florida, Atlanta, Las Vegas
I wake up every day at 4 a.m. to get a couple hours of paid work before my daughter wakes up. I can't afford full-time childcare, so I have her with me some days of the week. I can usually get a couple of hours of paid work done before my daughter wakes up, then my attention shifts. We can’t afford full time childcare with our current income, even though we both need to work full-time hours. Our day care offers a sliding scale fee structure, which feels like a privilege, but it’s somehow also still unaffordable.
Persons: , Toni Morrison, I’m, doesn’t, it’s, we’ve Organizations: Service Locations: autopay
The American Dream is under siege
  + stars: | 2024-03-02 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +15 min
Parents of young children are making difficult choices to afford child care — or they’re opting to evade it by dropping out of the workforce altogether. Even as the inflation rate has cooled across the US economy, child care remains a sore spot for many families. The weekly price of day care for a toddler surged 9% in 2023, according to Care.com, a marketplace for child care. Of course, Allison is hardly alone in feeling like the American Dream has been more difficult — and expensive — to attain than imagined. “The American dream is being taken away from the younger generation by the housing affordability challenges,” said Lawrence Yun, chief economist at the National Association of Realtors.
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When my kids are old enough, my wife and I plan to get them into judo gear. AdvertisementHaving kids in Japan, as a same-sex couple, has been hard. We started talking seriously about building a family early on, given that we were both already in our mid-30s and worried that waiting would diminish our chances of success. AdvertisementDespite the acceptance of our medical team, however, the Japanese birth certificates that we received list each of us as a single mom. For now, we're comfortably settledHer partner Ali and two kids playing in the fall leaves in Japan.
Persons: , Ali, Finn, Carey Finn, we're, we'll, we've Organizations: Service, Japan Exchange, Teaching, JET, boro Locations: Japan, Cape Town , South Africa, Canada, Tokyo, South Africa
But the double whammy of housing plus childcare costs doesn't hit all parents — just parents of very young kids. However, after-school programs or an afternoon babysitter are typically a fraction of the cost of full-time day care.) I propose we call them: DIPS, or Double Income, Public School. For example, Massachusetts has the highest average childcare costs, where day care for an infant is $24,472. I'm stuck in between — one kid in public school and a younger one still in day care.
Persons: , Alcynna Lloyd, Lloyd, Zillow, it's, I'm, Rich, Stanley, you'll, they'll, POLK Organizations: Service, Business, Public School, Kids, Nationwide Locations: Los Angeles, San Diego, California, Massachusetts, Iowa, In Massachusetts
My husband and I decided that the American dream was not for us. Growing up in Kansas, the American dream was simple: Graduate from college, find a good job, get married, buy a house, and start a family. AdvertisementBut the best part about raising a family in Spain is the safety and the active social life. Here in Spain, that's impossible. Jessica Smith said the best part about raising a family in Spain is the safety and the active social life.
Persons: we'd, Smith, Spain Jessica Smith, Jessica Smith, There's, I'm Organizations: Business, Netflix Locations: Spain, La Rioja, Madrid, Kansas, Logroño
download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewWorking for a global organization is no joke — particularly as a front-line, "the buck stops here" client service manager. He was dismayed when I replied, "I'm leaving to have a better work-life balance, and that's something you can't provide. After a few months on the job, I took another pay cut to work part-time, resulting in a nearly 50% pay cut from my client service salary. It's a good thing, too, because my son was getting older, and I lost both of my parents within five years.
Persons: , I'd, who'd Organizations: Service, Business
When it comes to parenting in France, there are a lot of things that my American soul will never quite understand. Parenting and cultural traditions look different all around the world, but since I've moved to France, I've noticed the differences between French and American traditions, especially now that I am a mother. Here are the differences between French and American parenting I've noticed and why I'm doing things the way I'm used to. Young French children will frequently be zipping around on a scooter or small bike without pedals. And although I am surrounded by many French parents who disagree with the way I do things, I have learned to accept that it is OK to be different.
Persons: I've, I'm, he's, Young Locations: France, Paris, States
Let Tesla Expand? Germans Vote No.
  + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Melissa Eddy | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The NewsResidents in the German community where Tesla has its only assembly plant in Europe overwhelming rejected the company’s plan to expand its facilities, dealing a blow to the U.S. automaker and local supporters. Sixty-five percent of citizens in Grünheide who voted opted against Tesla’s proposal to clear 250 acres of forest near its plant to build a rail yard, warehouses and a day care center. The vote was nonbinding, but local officials said they would honor it by heading back to the drawing board to try to find an acceptable solution. “That is the big challenge for the community,” Arne Christiani, the mayor of Grünheide and a supporter of the expansion, told public broadcaster Inforadio rbb on Wednesday. But the company defended its plans in local media, while acknowledging “that the citizens of Grünheide have concerns in connection with the planned expansion of the site.”
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Tesla’s hulking assembly plant outside Berlin, which opened two years ago in a community known for its forests and lakes, still rubs many residents the wrong way. They worry it threatens the quality of their water and air, and has disrupted the peacefulness that drew them to the area. Mr. Schorcht and many of his neighbors are determined to make sure that doesn’t happen. “We say, ‘enough is enough,’” Mr. Schorcht said. Their resistance campaign includes weekly hikes through the endangered forest and knocking on doors.
Persons: Tesla’s, Steffen Schorcht, Tesla, Schorcht, Locations: Berlin
She grew up between Ukraine, Russia and the US. As someone who grew up between Ukraine and Russia, I used to go back to both countries to visit family every year. She asked me if I’d heard about Navalny’s death and said she was heartbroken and had been crying all morning. But Navalny’s death represents the extinguishing of all hope for Russia’s turnaround. That speaks of Navalny’s power to inspire small acts of courage, even if they won’t bring any real change in the face of overriding fear.
Persons: Sasha Vasilyuk, Alexey Navalny, Navalny, Putin, Sasha Vasilyu, Christopher Michel A, I’d, hadn’t, Sergei GAPON, SERGEI GAPON, Sergei Gapon, , , Russia lawlessly, , didn’t, Sasha Alexeyeva, “ I’ve Organizations: CNN, Getty, Russian Embassy, Twitter, Facebook Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Russian, California, Moscow, today’s Russia, Europe, Eastern Europe, Latvia, Warsaw, AFP, Crimea
“Honestly, sometimes lately, I’ve thought my entire career is a ZIRP,” a tech worker recently reflected. More tech workers get laid offOver the last 18 months, tech workers say it's felt difficult to stay employed as round after round of layoffs have swept Big Tech and the broader industry. The tech job market got tougherTo add insult to injury, keeping a job in tech isn’t the only thing that’s more difficult. Aline Lerner, a former tech engineer and founder of interviewing.io, a site for tech recruiting and mock interviewing for tech job seekers, said it's now much more difficult to land a tech job, particularly at a high-profile or Big Tech company. “Anecdotally, I’d say it’s the hardest it’s been to get a tech job since probably the dot-com bust," Lerner said.
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The cushy Big Tech job is dead
  + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +10 min
Hopping from one mid-six-figure salary job in Big Tech to the next? More tech workers get laid offOver the last 18 months, tech workers say it's felt difficult to stay employed as round after round of layoffs have swept Big Tech and the broader industry. The tech job market got tougherTo add insult to injury, keeping a job in tech isn’t the only thing that’s more difficult. Aline Lerner, a former tech engineer and founder of interviewing.io, a site for tech recruiting and mock interviewing for tech job seekers, said it's now much more difficult to land a tech job, particularly at a high-profile or Big Tech company. “Anecdotally, I’d say it’s the hardest it’s been to get a tech job since probably the dot-com bust," Lerner said.
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Jayla, 28, spent two years driving for Uber and Lyft and struggled to find stable housing and provide for herself and her son. But after switching jobs and becoming a bus driver in late 2023, she's now living in her own apartment. After landing a bus driver position and a W2, she secured an apartment in Akron despite no luck in Texas. AdvertisementBecoming a school bus driverShe decided to become a school bus driver as she could work morning and afternoon shifts while working around her son’s day care schedule. The same day she applied, she was hired as a bus driver for her local Akron school district.
Persons: Uber, Lyft, she's, that’s, ” Jayla, Jayla, , I’ve, she’s Organizations: Service, Business, Lyft, Hertz, Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority Locations: Akron , Ohio, Houston, Akron, Texas, Lyft
It would be nice to have a larger apartment, but a larger place would come at a much greater cost. I went from paying a couple hundred dollars a month in rent to around $1,500 to live in the living room of a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan. We live in a small apartment that’s in our budgetMy husband and I have lived in the same one-bedroom apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn since 2019. The apartment is under 600 square feet, and the rent is around $3,400 a month. We’d only be able to afford that rent if we cut back in other areas.
Persons: , Zumper, nannies, I’ve, We’ve, We’ll Organizations: Service, Day Care, New Locations: New York City, Florida, Manhattan, Williamsburg , Brooklyn, It’s, New York
I cried the day my son was accepted into a public school pre-k program. After four years of dreading his monthly Montessori school tuition, it felt like we had finally summited Mt. There I was, an alternative weekly editor, and my husband, a young high school teacher. Thus, the waterworks the day we learned our 4-year-old had been accepted to a public school via the Montessori lottery. But as all too many parents know, the high price of private day care tuition doesn't go away with the final statement of charges.
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In Las Vegas, the cacophony of voices, music, ringing slot machines and car horns that typically pulsed through the Las Vegas Strip was replaced by silence, the chirps of birds and the wails of sirens. In tourism-dependent Nevada, the unemployment rate rocketed even higher, topping out at 30.6% that month. “This is an unemployment rate that’s not driven by job losers, this is an unemployment rate driven by job seekers,” he said. Homes under construction in the Summerlin community, on July 31, 2023, in Las Vegas, Nevada. As of December 2023, the Reno metro area’s unemployment rate was just 0.2 percentage points above the nation’s 3.7% rate.
Persons: John Simpson, Steve, Sisolak, ” Simpson, It’s, , they’re, I’ve, Stephen M, Miller, Mario Tama, Bob Potts, there’s, There’s, Nevadans, Annie E, Casey Foundation’s, Jamelle Nance, Marty Elquist, ” Elquist, , Andrew Woods, Nicholas Irwin, Start’s Simpson, Irwin, Ethan Miller, Maurice Page, Page, Tesla, ” Potts, Carolyn Cole, Potts, You’ve, you’ve Organizations: CNN, Las, Republican Party, of Labor Statistics, University of Nevada, Lee Business School’s Center for Business, Economic Research, New York, Nevada Governor’s, Economic, Las Vegas, New, Workforce, Children’s, Alliance of Nevada, Education, Development, Silver State, Center for Business, UNLV, Reno, , Homes, Nevada Housing Coalition, Harvard University’s, for Housing Studies, Silver, Means, Reno Industrial Park, Apple, Panasonic, Google, Reno Industrial, Los Angeles Times, NCAA, NFL, NFL Pro Bowl Locations: Nevada, Las Vegas, Reno, ” Nevada, State, New York, New, Las, New Mexico, Vegas, “ Nevada, Silver, UNLV . Nevada, California, Sparks, Las Vegas , Nevada, Florida, Hawaii, Clark County, Sparks , Nevada, New Orleans, Denver, Southern Nevada, Northern Nevada, Los Angeles
We have people that are willing and able to work, but finding child care was an obstacle.”Republicans historically have been lukewarm about using taxpayer money for child care, even as they have embraced prekindergarten. Nebraska and Indiana have both pitched programs to make child care free for child care workers. Child care advocates say the investments are not enough and called on Congress to authorize a new round of money to keep the child care industry afloat. GOP resistance to child care spending dates to the 1970s, when President Richard Nixon vetoed a bill to establish a national child care system, invoking fears of communism and saying it had “family-weakening implications.” Many of those arguments persist. But during the pandemic, many child care workers left the industry for better-paying jobs, and some child care centers closed for good, exacerbating the problem.
Persons: Emily O'Brien, Lennon, O'Brien, Jolene, Doug Burgum's, ” O'Brien, , Mike Parson, Brenda Shields, ” Shields, Pro Tem Caleb Rowden, Glenn Youngkin, Richard Nixon, , Kristi Noem, ” Noem Organizations: Republican, Gov, Republicans, Democratic, Republican Gov, Pro, Virginia Gov, U.S . Chamber of Commerce Foundation, KWAT, Associated Press Locations: North Dakota, Forks, Bismarck, New Mexico, Vermont, Missouri, Louisiana, Alabama, Texas, Nebraska, Indiana, Idaho, U.S, South Dakota, Watertown , South Dakota, AP.org
What happens when a homeowner can't get insuranceDarlene Tucker and Tom PinterWithout insurance, many homeowners can find themselves in big financial trouble. Darlene Tucker, 66, and Tom Pinter, 68, are longtime homeowners in Sonora, California. Darlene Tucker and Tom Pinter's home in Sonora, California. Dogs play at Darlene Tucker and Tom Pinter's home in Sonora, California. Darlene Tucker and Tom Pinter
Persons: Darlene Tucker, Tom Pinter, Tucker, Pinter, Tom Pinter's, — that's, Porter, That's, Kevelighan Organizations: Allstate, CNBC, Insurance, homebuyers Experts, Insurance Information Institute Locations: Sonora , California, California
The highest level of care is "skilled nursing care" for those who are chronically ill or disabled and can no longer care for themselves. Medicaid pays for most long-term care services — but only for people with low incomes and little savings. Long-term care insuranceDepending on the plan, long-term care insurance pays for services from at-home care to assisted living, memory care, skilled nursing care, and hospice. Long-term care insurance may have annual premiums that increase over time or may be included as a rider to a life insurance policy. Employers are increasingly offering long-term care insurance as a workplace benefit.
Persons: Abbe Udochi, AARP's Goyer, Ivory Johnson, Johnson, Couples, Goyer Organizations: Maskot, Getty, Healthcare Consulting, National Investment Center, Seniors Housing & Care, Medicare, Delancey Wealth Management, Washington , D.C, CNBC FA, American Association for, Care Insurance, Employers Locations: New York, Washington ,
He and his partner chose a wait-and-see approach to having kids. Now dealing with personal hardship, Bernard is grateful a child doesn't have to deal with it, too. From a financial standpoint, being a DINK has meant flexibility — and the ability to spoil his dog "big time." "It's like saving lots of money, a kid versus dog day care, just on a purely financial perspective," he said. Advertisement"This whole experience has made me honestly more grateful to be a DINK than ever," Bernard said.
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Read previewMy journey to South Korea began in 2007 when I accepted a position as an associate professor in Daegu. Raising kids in South Korea is a slice of modern paradise: convenient, safe, and attractive in both outdoor recreation and education. My boys attended Korean school and read a lot to maintain their English and Persian skills at home. School lunches are the highlight of my kids' school days. We will continue to embrace the educational opportunities, the culture, and, of course, the delicious food South Korea offers.
Persons: Organizations: Service, Business, Universal, Korean, International Locations: South Korea, Daegu, Korea
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A second man has been convicted on charges stemming from the death of an Ohio religious leader authorities said was killed in a botched robbery attempt. Isaiah Brown-Miller, 23, was convicted Friday of kidnapping and aggravated robbery charges in his third trial in the December 2021 death of 48-year-old Columbus imam Mohamed Hassan Adam, a prominent figure in the Somali community. A co-defendant was earlier convicted of murder in the case. Another jury in October convicted his codefendant, 47-year-old John Wooden, of aggravated murder, kidnapping, aggravated robbery, and other charges in Adam’s death. He faces a mandatory life term in prison and at least 20 years before being eligible for parole.
Persons: , Isaiah Brown, Miller, Mohamed Hassan Adam, Adam, Toure McCord, Brown, John Wooden, Paul Scarsella, Wooden Organizations: Columbus Dispatch Locations: COLUMBUS , Ohio, Ohio, Columbus, Somali, Franklin County, mistrials, Masjid Abu Hurairah, Franklin
It's hard for people to understand that I have siblings the same age as my kids. AdvertisementI still remember how my mom and I tried to corral the kids while eating burgers at the local restaurant years ago. People often try to correct me, thinking they might be my siblings' kids, my nieces and nephews. When they go to school and have a hard day, there are people there who know and love them. When I have a hard day, my mom is in the midst of the same stage of parenting — with a bit more wisdom on her side!
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